Wow! With a whopping 598 comments on the gift certificate entry before the comments were closed, I’m sure glad that I decided to use a randomizer to choose the winner! And without further ado, the randomizer chose…

Lori from A Cowboy’s Wife! Congratulations Lori, with your cooking blog, I know you’ll put the gift certificate to good use!

I’ll be contacting Lori a little later today to get her shipping address, but in the meantime, I just wanted to thank everyone for entering. I hope at least a few of you liked what you saw here and will stick around with me! Stay tuned… I’ll be posting last night’s Mac and Cheese later on this evening!

I only wish I would have found this a bit earlier, but that’s okay! That just means this will be a fast and furious giveaway, and you won’t have to wait very long to find out whether or not you’ve won! As you may have guessed by this point, I’ve decided to participate in the Winter ’08 Bloggy Giveaways. So stick around, get yourself entered here, but don’t forget to go check out the other contests. As of right now, there are 874 others listed and there are some seriously awesome things being offered!

What I’m giving Away

I’m giving away a $20 gift certificate to Pampered Chef.

Who is Eligible

I’m willing to send the gift certificate anywhere. But I suggest logging on to the Pampered Chef website and making sure they will ship to you… I’d hate for someone to end up with a $20 piece of paper that they can’t use.

How to Enter

Leave a comment on this post. It’s that simple! You don’t have to have a blog to enter this contest, but make sure you enter a valid email address… if I can’t contact you, I can’t give you the prize!

The rest of the details…

Submissions will be open until 6pm on Sunday February 3rd. Any comments received after that point (if I haven’t closed the comment form yet) will not be valid. The winner will be announced Monday February 4th and the prize will be on it’s way as soon as I have the necessary information. Don’t enter if you aren’t willing to share your first and last names, and your shipping address.

I believe that’s all! Good luck! Feel free to share your recipes with me while you are here– email jenn at jenncooks.com!

Edited to add: All first-time commenters will need to have their comments approved before they show up on the post. Don’t worry- they’re in the moderation queue, and I’ll approve them as soon as I can!

I have been called out! I have been remiss in responding to the challenge, but here it is now. If you haven’t been following along (and why haven’t you?), this all started over a simple grilled cheese sandwich. Skeet insists that the only proper way to make a grilled cheese sandwich is with cheese and bacon. Yours truly insists there must be Miracle Whip, or mayonnaise at least! No bacon. If you must add extras, go with pickles, or ham. But not bacon. The gauntlet was thrown down. As Skeet and I circled each other, laying down the ground rules of our skirmish, Charlotte jumped in on the action insisting that HER grilled cheese recipe was in fact the best.

In the end, there was only one thing to do… let YOU decide. As with every thing, there are some ground rules, but there are potential prizes involved as well!!

The Rules:
1. Go to each of the recipe links:

Jenn: How Do You Make a Grilled Cheese?

Charlotte: Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwich

Skeet: Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwich Illustrated

2. Make the sandwiches.

3. Write a post about your experience and name the recipe that you think is best.

4. Go to all three contest announcements and give a link to your post in the comments for each one: (I’ll link the other contest posts as soon as they’re up.)

Jenn: That’d be this one.

Charlotte:

Skeet: Grilled Cheese and Bacon Throw Down- Win a Cookbook

Deadline:
You must complete the process by posting your comments to each of our blogs by midnight EST on Sunday, November 4th.

Prizes:
Charlotte, Jenn and Skeet will each draw a name from among the entrants and will reward a cookbook to that lucky winner. Bonus! Want an extra entry? When you write your post, include a picture of at least one of the sandwiches you made.

Eligibility:
The contest is open to anyone with a US or Canadian mailing address. We have nothing against the rest of you, but postage, taxes and customs requirements could turn this into a major hassle instead of a fun contest.

The Prize
As is mentioned in the rules, each of us will be giving out a cookbook as a prize. You’ll have to visit the others to see what they have chosen, but fitting with the theme, the cookbook I have chosen is the Great Grilled Cheese cookbook.

Just remember, the best grilled cheese sandwich has miracle whip (or mayonnaise) and no bacon! Well, what are you waiting for? Get cooking!